It is noon on the Fourth of July as I start to write this; hope everyone is staying cool, calm and collected on this day of the greatest nation on earth's 235th birthday. And sadly, it is not that great of a birthday, because there is too much going wrong or headed in the wrong direction. Things such as New York state headed down the path to Sodom and Gomorrah. Or an education system that doesn't teach the uniqueness of this country, this nation, but ascribes to a socialist brainwashing and indoctrination espousing hatred for this country and us. Don't believe it? Ask any fifteen year old the significance of this date. And then standby to be shocked.
And before I forget.....The budget to protect, defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States of America for 2012 is $671 billion. The cost of the abomination entitled Obama Care will be $2.7 trillion (trillion with a "T" for the first year), and that bill includes provisions whereby the federal government has legal access to electronically transfer money from your checking account WITHOUT PRIOR CONSENT to make you pay for insurance whether or not you need it or want it. Bet you didn't know THAT did you? Remember that idiot Pelosi telling us that the bill would have to pass first in order that we may learn what is in it? Yessir, we have the best government money can buy!
Have we forgotten that the people who came here from Europe came here because they wanted the right to self-determination on how best to live, to practice the religion of THEIR choice at their choosing, to be free of governmental interference......self-determination, also known as FREEDOM. And there can be no self-determination without self-discipline and there is only one source that truly espouses self-discipline and it is incorporated in our Declaration of Independence and The Constitution. And that is why people all over the world want to come here, still, in spite of everything that has changed. We are still the only country in the world where anyone can aspire to do what their dreams have given them....TRUE HOPE for a better life and not some politician's description of hope for change that he wants you to have, regardless of what you want.
Our Constitution gives us a solid, steady base of laws, and the Bill of Rights protects US from our government. I would wager that ninety percent of you have never really read all ten of the Bill of Rights. That is a shame. A shame that has been perpetrated on us by our own education system, commencing in the mid-1970's, when too many of the "Hate America First" crowd earned their teaching certificates. Nineteen seventy-eight was the year that I first realized that our education system was turning away from teaching truth and understanding about this country. And it came from a younger sibling (fifteen years old) who asked me why we celebrated the Fourth of July? I asked a lot of questions, not only from my sibling but from two very good friends who were teachers. The answer I got shook me...history was not being taught...history had been replaced by sociological studies.
I have relatives buried in mass graves in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. They did not own slaves, they had no large plantations, but they did have the courage of their convictions that no government should supplant the right of an individual to self-determine how he would make a living, practice religion, or conduct his daily affairs. It is a blight on the image we have of the framers of the Constitution and George Washington himself that they did not deal with and abolish the institution of slavery. This nation had to suffer the horror of a civil war to rid us of that crime. We are a better nation because of that and the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln and his immortal Gettysburg address.
But even with such a wrenching tragedy, the Constitution and the Declaration remained pretty much intact, until Woodrow Wilson came along. I don't have the space here to go into Wilson's "New Freedom" reform program that was anything but new freedom. I would suggest to you that you should read up on it, but I don't believe anyone would. It is frightening and very enlightening espicially concerning the paralells with who we have as President today. At least Wilson was an educated man with much experience to rely on. He was just wrong headed, as all liberals are.
G.R.I.T.S.